“They appear designed to cause maximum injury,” Amnesty said.
Many civilians were killed by this weapon, including several children, it said.
Rockets fired by Palestinian militants were either 122mm Grad missiles or short-range Qassam rockets, a locally made, improvised artillery weapon. Warheads were either smuggled in or made from fertilizer.
The arsenal of weapons was on a “very small scale compared to Israel,” Amnesty said, adding that the scale of rocket arsenal deployed by Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanese war was “beyond the reach of Palestinian militant groups.”
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